Dorian (The Painting): “Extraordinary personal beauty”, “I am in love with it. It is a part of myself.”, “It has destroyed me.”, “The face of my soul.”, “more fearful than a rotting corpse”, “leering in the sunlight” [post B’s death], “A face without a heart” (D on B, but D on D) “His youth but a mockery.”

Changes D from naïve, child-like young man to a cold, sinful Narcissus

Basil: "never [says] a moral thing, and never [does] a wrong thing. [His] cynicism is simply a pose"

Gillespie: Henry “seems to make no move to gratify his appetites”

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Basil

“I’ve always been my own master, at least always been so, till I met Dorian Gray.”

“I am afraid that I have shown the secret of my soul […] We live in age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography.”

Basil on Dorian: “Is all my art to me now”

B’s feels moral corrupted due of his aesthetic desire for D. His aesthetic infatuation with D has caused his moral judgment to falter: religious language and imagery: “Pray, Dorian, Pray”, “We are both punished”, "Lead us not into temptation. Forgive us our sins", "I worshipped you too much. I am punished for it,"